The Big Up Music and Arts Festival

The Big Up Music & Arts Festival is just a few short weeks away, taking place Thursday, August 8th – Saturday, August 10that Hemlock Hollow Farm in beautiful Claverack, NY! The three-day camping event features more than 70 musical acts including livetronica, EDM, funk, rock and disco artists on three stages.

The Big Up Music & Arts Festival has added dynamic genre-bending rock band The Heavy Pets and seeker of unearthed sound Thriftworks to the 2013 lineup. In addition to performing his solo set, Allen Aucion (aka DrFameus) will join Space Jesus Live on drums where he’ll provide the driving beat that propels the psychedelic, bass-fueled, hip hop-laced set.

The Big Up Music & Arts Festival has unveiled their Phase Three lineup announcement adding fifteen more acts to the festival along with a special Kung Fu Tribute Set to Princefeaturing Jans Ingber ofThe Motet. You can also expect several other surprise guests because "We don't give a damn, We just want to jam, Party up!"

The Big Up Music & Arts Festival has unveiled their Phase Two lineup featuring more than 40 stellar acts including experimental world fusion performers Beats Antique, producer and live artist GAUDI, British electro-dance band The Egg, and drummer/producer DrFameus (aka Allen Aucoin of The Disco Biscuits), plus an extra special set by nu-funk ninjas Kung Fu.

Selecting the defining sounds of summer once again, this year’s Phase One acts include Holy Fuck, Escort, the world premiere of Abakus live band, a DJ set from Chris Keating of Yeasayer, Jojo Mayer & Nerve, host band Higher Organix, Kung Fu, Dopapod, Brothers Past, Normal Instruments and Party Supplies.

Shireworks Productions, producer of The Big Up Music and Arts Festival, has shared a transmission received from The Big Up Mothership, who reported it had been traveling in outer space since the end of the 2011 festival, when it got sucked into a wormhole and then spit out into a previously undiscovered frontier.